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This book explores the influence of literacy on eleventh and twelfth-century life and thought on social organization, on the criticism of ritual and symbol, on the rise of empirical attitudes, on the relationship between language and reality, and on the broad interaction between ideas and society.
This book explores the influence of literacy on eleventh and twelfth-century life and thought on social organization, on the criticism of ritual and symbol, on the rise of empirical attitudes, on the relationship between language and reality, and on the broad interaction between ideas and society.
Medieval and early modern literacy, Brian Stock argues, did not simply supercede oral discourse but created a new type of interdependence between the oral and the written. If, on the surface, medieval culture was largely oral, texts nonetheless emerged as a reference system both for everyday activities and for giving shape to larger vehicles of interpretation. Even when texts were not actually present, people often acted and behaved as if they were.
The book uses methods derived from anthropology, from literary theory, and from historical research, and is divided into five chapters. The first treats the growth and shape of medieval literacy itself. The other four look afresh at some of the period's major issues--heresy, reform, the eucharistic controversy, the thought of Anselm, Abelard, and St. Bernard, together with the interpretation of contemporary experience--in the light of literacy's development. The study concludes that written language was the chief integrating instrument for diverse cultural achievements.
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higher religious culture, pataria milanese, rituel symbolique, riforma della chiesa, more literate society, administrative kingship, eucharistic debate, physical symbolism, cardinal clergy, intellectualist position, eucharistic controversy, medieval literacy, abbaye royale, medieval heresy, later eleventh century Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Middle Ages, Landulf Senior, Landulf Cotta, New York, Rodulf Glaber, Anselm of Baggio, Bernard of Clairvaux, Moyen Age, Bonizo of Sutri, Guido da Velate, New Testament, Old Testament, Sanguine Domini, Andrew of Strumi, Gregory the Great, Ilarino da Milano, Peter Abelard, Robert the Pious, First Crusade, Ademar of Chabannes, Durand of Troarn, Guibert of Nogent, Guitmund of Aversa, Peter Damian, San Bernardo New!
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higher religious culture, pataria milanese, rituel symbolique, riforma della chiesa, more literate society, administrative kingship, eucharistic debate, physical symbolism, cardinal clergy, intellectualist position, eucharistic controversy, medieval literacy, abbaye royale, medieval heresy, later eleventh century Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Middle Ages, Landulf Senior, Landulf Cotta, New York, Rodulf Glaber, Anselm of Baggio, Bernard of Clairvaux, Moyen Age, Bonizo of Sutri, Guido da Velate, New Testament, Old Testament, Sanguine Domini, Andrew of Strumi, Gregory the Great, Ilarino da Milano, Peter Abelard, Robert the Pious, First Crusade, Ademar of Chabannes, Durand of Troarn, Guibert of Nogent, Guitmund of Aversa, Peter Damian, San Bernardo New!
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- Renaissance and Renewal in the Twelfth Century (MART: The Medieval Academy Reprints for Teaching) by Robert L. Benson on 4 pages
- Peter Abelard (Headstart History Papers) by David Luscombe on 4 pages
- Secular Ritual by Sally Falk Moore on page 242, page 479, and Back Matter
- Lanfranc of Bec by Margaret Gibson on page 272, page 295, and Back Matter
- The Literacy of the Medieval English Kings by V. H. Galbraith on page 2, page 48, and Back Matter
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- Transmitting Mishnah: The Shaping Influence of Oral Tradition by Elizabeth Shanks Alexander in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Back Matter
- Consorting With Saints: Prayer for the Dead in Early Medieval France by Megan McLaughlin on page 236, page 237, and Back Matter
- Engaging Words: The Culture of Reading in the Later Middle Ages (The New Middle Ages) by Laurel Amtower in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Popular Religion in Late Saxon England: Elf Charms in Context by Karen Louise Jolly in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Writing Signs: The Fatimid Public Text by Irene A. Bierman in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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